Father’s Day is this Sunday, and as we remember our own fathers, may we take time to contemplate what it means that God is our Father. Throughout both the Old and New Testaments God is referred to as ...

If anything, I suppose I would be predisposed to not taking a kindly view of the fatherhood of God. I never knew my biological father; my mother had to run from him for my safety. And the years that ...

The facts are brutally painful -- More than 25 million children in America live in homes where fathers are absent. Millions more have experienced emotional wounds so deep at the hands of their dads it ...

I sometimes struggle to relate to Jesus. I’ve never walked on water. I’ve never turned water to wine. I’ve sinned. But there is one thing I consider myself blessed to have in common with Jesus: having ...

To call God “He” is not mere habit but inheritance. From Genesis to Gethsemane, Scripture speaks of the Father, the Son, the King, the Lord. The masculine language of faith is ontological, not ...

I needed to hear it. Father Mike Schmitz’s talk, that is. “Wrestling With God in Scripture” was part of The Bible in a Year Retreat held over the weekend. I keep thinking about what the host of The ...

The image of God as the father of us all is an enduring one throughout the ages, writes Paul Prather. Pictured, "The Creation of Adam" by Michaelangelo. Vieriu Adrian Getty Images/iStockphoto Recently ...

We haven’t had a major snowstorm this year, yet, for some reason, I have been remembering one. It is a memory of when we lived in Pierre, South Dakota, at the top of Monroe Street, which travels a ...

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James Kubicki, S.J., is a Milwaukee-based priest who has served as national director of the Apostleship of Prayer since 2003. He holds an M.A. from Saint Louis University as well as an M.Div and a ...